"A favorite son" is a retelling of a well-known Biblical tale of Jacob and Esau, their mother Rebecca, and Isaac, son of Abraham.

Esav and Yankle, in this version, are twins who are born after their mother, Becky, has prayed to God for twenty years to have children. Esav is the first-born by just a "split second" and Yankle, no matter how close he feels to his brother, is always envious of his brother. Yankle tricks his brother into selling his birthright for a pot a stew; Becky tricks her blind and bedridden husband, Isaac, into giving his blessings to Yankle with a "goatskin coat"; deception is discovered and Esav tries to kill Yankle. The storyline is as close to the Bible text as can be but this is not what makes THIS book shine.

This story is like a kaleidoscope - with every turn of the page the focus changes and we shift our concentration on a different aspect of the tale. A few of the pictures stand out and make us question the original story - not that it did not have enough ambiguity on its own, mind you - the last talk of disguised Yankle and his dying father, for example. When you read it, you get a feeling that Isaac, while old and blind, might not have been fooled by the goatskin as much as we are led to believe.

The tale is told from Yankle's point of view, as he tells it to his own "favorite" son. The author, by a masterful use of shifting tenses and a couple of unobtrusive references, creates an illusion that the story has happened both long time ago and in the present at the same time; which gives this story a new definition of "Timeless." Good read.

Uvi Poznansky is a bestseller, award-winning author, poet and artist. Her boxed set, A TOUCH OF PASSION, has just become the 2016 WINNER of The Romance Reviews Readers' Choice Awards.
“I paint with my pen,” she says, “and write with my paintbrush.” She received a Fellowship grant and a Teaching Assistantship from the Architecture department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she earned her M.A. in Architecture. Then, taking a sharp turn in her education, she earned her M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Uvi writes across a variety of genres: Apart From Love and The White Piano (literary fiction), My Own Voice (women's fiction), The Music of Us and Dancing with Air (romance), Rise to Power, A Peek at Bathsheba, and The Edge of Revolt (historical fiction), A Favorite Son (biblical fiction), Home (poetry), Twisted (horror), and Now I Am Paper and Jess and Wiggle (children’s books.)